That must have been a rite of passage. No one would tell you to number your cards with a marker (and make a diagonal stripe across the top of the deck) until after you did that at least once.
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Yes, the diagonal stripe! Then if the cards were in order, you had to hand the deck over to an admin behind a glass window (they needed protection from students), wait a few hours, go back and get the cards, pick up the output from your mailbox, debug, rinse, repeat.
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Foldable iPhone? No.
Foldable iPad? Hells to the yes! Imagine a iPad mini that became twice the size when you needed it.
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Huawei upped the price level with their own entry.
$2,600 US
30% more than Samsung
With this logic, Apple can introduce a $3,000+ folding iPad/iPhone 
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No but Iād use the roll up one from Earth the Final Conflict - Gene Roddenberryās last show and donāt forget Star Trek brought us the flip phone. https://community.ultimaker.com/topic/15743-global-link-prop-reproduction-from-earth-final-conflict/
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Looks like the current folding tech is still problematic - you can easily see the folds in the opened Samsung and Huawei phones, and the Huawei - which has the screen(s) on the outside of the fold - is plastic, making it especially susceptible to scratching (and you canāt put a case on it)
Some GIFs:
It was a bit larger rolled up than I want but the right idea.
The link got me to thinking. Right now our 3-d printer has been going nonstop for the last couple of days making enclosures for the latest GPS boards my husband designed. But maybe I can get him thinking more about roll up displays and rugged handhelds again with the idea he can prototype the case himselfā¦
I was thinking an iPhone 8 size screen when rolled that can expand as needed to iPad mini size or a bit bigger.
Yeah, about what Iād expect from a low-end $3,000 phone 
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As opposed to having a usable screen while already folded? I think thereās a reason all the major players (and patents) are looking at folding instead.
No, I envision it still usable when rolled because itās not fully rolled up. Itās rolled to the side but even in the fully closed configuration there is an iPhone 8 size screen available for use. The rolling out is only when you need a larger screen.
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I still want a new SE. I want smaller, not bigger.
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Still donāt see it useful, or necessarily technically stable. Like I said, thereās reasons all the manufacturers have patents for folding and products that fold, not roll.
Maybe because rollable ones have already been prototyped and also patented.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX3_sSwiWIk
https://www.cultofmac.com/572809/magicscroll-tablet-phone-flexible-display/
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Patents for tablets, not phones. This thread is about phones.
Scroll-based patents are a small minority of the flex-screen patents out there, and no devices have been releasedā¦ or rumored, Oogie.
Iād say this thread (and the devices weāve seen so far from Samsung, Huawei, and others) are phones that unfold into tablets. One thing thatās been conspicuously absent so far is small phones that unfold into big phones (like someone like @lsaami might want).
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Right. And it seems not only that the first designs are rather primitive and expensive and filled with compromises.
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Very much so. Iām interested in the concept, but even if I werenāt solidly dedicated to the Apple ecosystem I donāt think Iād be in the market for one of these early devices.
In a couple of years, I could see myself buying a foldable iOS device though.
I want a foldable Kindle, not a phone. 
Foldable devices are everywhere. I think what we really want are unfoldable ones 
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